Cloud Computing

My files in the cloud using SkyDrive

I have been using the beta version of SkyDrive for a while now and I love it. I was a…

13 years ago

XLDB 2011 conference – Observations

Granted, Netflix had to build their own pipeline based on open source technologies. They used the right tool for the…

13 years ago

Cloud Computing economics and developers

I am really enjoying the work that my new team does. We are a Cloud-focused team. I am really looking…

15 years ago

Forthcoming book by MIT Press: World Wide Research

Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and I were asked to contribute an essay for an MIT Press book entitled "World Wide…

15 years ago

“What’s faster – A supercomputer or EC2?” – Great insight by Ian Foster

I enjoyed reading Ian's analysis on how to interpret "faster" when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet:…

15 years ago

Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don't know the answer, please blog about…

16 years ago

PDC 08: Day 1 Highlights

Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 - Day 1 Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia). Windows Azure and…

16 years ago

Amazon’s recent S3 problems

A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3's recent 9-hour downtime…

16 years ago

“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s

Werner Vogel just finished his "Ahead in the Cloud" talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining.…

16 years ago

Three day of Mapping and Reducing…

I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use…

16 years ago